The part where they say that using Linux instead of Windows is like leaving the US for Canada when Trump gets elected, and apparently it's bad because it means you don't help improve things for Windows (lol).

I know it sounds just like a joke, but it isn't. Tim Sweeney is really such a moron. Source: https://twitter.com/timsweeneyepic/status/964284402741149698

[–] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 9 months ago

Wow. This is one of the stupidest takes I've ever seen.

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 9 months ago

Poor windows, they really need all the support they can get 😢

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 13 points 9 months ago

For those like me, who don't have xitter account but want to see the whole thing:

https://nitter.net/timsweeneyepic/status/964284402741149698

[–] BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Didn't that actually happen though? Not a massive exodus but loads of people actually did/tried to leave.

[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's not about it happening, it's about the results of those who leave.

Basically, if in the U.S. voters leave to another country based on a political choice, they are now removing their political choice meaning any dissent there may have been is now gone.

So, with Linux being like Canada, Windows refugees are removing any option of OS improvement for Windows.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's a stupid take because people don't have the right to vote on the future of Windows, it's a Microsoft dictatorship.

[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 3 points 9 months ago

I didn't say I believed it! Lol

[–] pkill@programming.dev 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

the twisted idea of extreme proprietarianism, which we'll combat with free software extremism!

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 9 months ago

Now that's a movement I can get behind! Go FOSS!